Job Description
This position is for EPES Transport, LLC., a division of Penske Logistics, based in Greensboro, NC. The Dispatcher is responsible for coordinating daily fleet operations, communicating with drivers, monitoring service performance, and ensuring timely and efficient deliveries. This role supports driver compliance, manages equipment and service issues, maintains accurate fleet information, and partners with Operations, Safety, and Maintenance teams to ensure safe and effective transportation operations.
Schedule: Onsite, Monday – Friday 4:30PMEST-12:30AMEST
Major Responsibilities:
• Follows up with specified drivers on instructions from Driver Managers and communicates any service issues, late deliveries, or drivers requiring write-ups, leaving notes for Driver Managers as necessary.
• After Driver Managers depart for the day, communicates with drivers via Qualcomm and phone to ensure follow-through on service requirements, relaying results to the day shift.
• Ensures compliance with all procedures related to cigarette loads and promptly reports any issues, concerns, or serious accidents to Operations and Safety Leadership.
• Manages the daytime fleets as a unified entity, taking sole responsibility for the entire Fleet Manager boards from the daytime shift.
• Ensures proper PTA (Projected Time of Availability) updates when dispatching the next load to drivers and maintains and monitors the current PTAs of trucks en route to their destinations.
• Works with Maintenance Department on any equipment breakdowns.
• Demonstrates support to the Penske’s Quality System and its objectives, as applicable.
• After Driver Managers depart for the day, communicates with drivers via Qualcomm and phone to ensure follow-through on service requirements, relaying results to the day shift.
• Other projects and tasks as assigned.
Qualifications:
• High School Diploma (or equivalent) required.
• Bachelor's Degree in Business or Supply Chain Management preferred.
• One plus years of experience in Transportation/Supply Chain preferred
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy, and sense of urgency
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Must be able to learn and regularly operate various computer systems across different platforms
• Ability to develop and maintain professional working relationships with customers as well as Penske associates
• Ability to use critical thinking to analyze information, communicate appropriately, make decisions within the framework of the SOP, solve problems, evaluate results, and determine if further action is needed.
• Ability to work First, Second and Third shifts as needed. Flexibility with scheduling required
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background Investigation, (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.
Physical Requirements:
-The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
-The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
-While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
-Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Epes Transport
Epes Transport, a Penske Logistics company, delivers dependable truckload transportation services with a strong presence in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, Northeast, and Midwest. We offer: Dedicated Truckload Capacity, Drayage Services, Shuttle Operations, General Truckload Services, and Yard Switching Operations. With terminals in NC, VA, GA, TN, and TX, and 24/7 satellite shipment tracking, we provide reliable coverage and visibility across major U.S. markets. visit epestransport.com to learn more.
